Advocacy before the Court correlates with later appointment

Evidence

Marshall’s formidable skills as an advocate were not limited to his service with the NAACP. Four years after his elevation to the United States Court of Appeals by President John Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him solicitor general, the government’s chief advocate before the Supreme Court. As the nation’s first African-American solicitor general, he won several important civil rights victories, including a Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By the time President Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1967, Marshall had argued 32 cases before that Court, winning 29 of them. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 605

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Litigant campaign contributions to sitting judges correlate with pending cases. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 420; Presidents can use lower court appointments to advance political agendas — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 477

Broader Connections

• Litigant campaign contributions to sitting judges correlate with pending cases. #corroborates (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 420
• Presidents can use lower court appointments to advance political agendas #expands (0.74) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 477